What happens when you squeeze DNA? Can pressure reveal something about how our genetic material is packed, protected, and accessed?
Molecular & Computational biology
Oct 20, 2025
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Sometimes, less really is more. By removing oxygen during synthesis, a team led by materials scientists at Penn State has created seven new high-entropy oxides (HEOS), a class of ceramics composed of five or more metals with ...
Analytical Chemistry
Oct 20, 2025
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What if a soft material could move on its own, guided not by electronics or motors, but by the kind of rudimentary chemical signaling that powers the simplest organisms? Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh Swanson ...
Biochemistry
Oct 20, 2025
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New advances in artificial intelligence (AI) are transforming the way scientists explore and understand some of the most remote parts of the ocean around Antarctica and the strange creatures that live there.
Ecology
Oct 20, 2025
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Understanding how plastics flow from land to sea is essential for solving the growing problem of plastic pollution. Rivers play a key role as major transport pathways, and accurate monitoring technologies are urgently needed ...
Environment
Oct 20, 2025
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The growing age imbalance in the duty solicitor scheme in England and Wales risks eroding trust in the criminal justice system, a new study warns. Most duty solicitors are aged 45 and over, putting at risk the ability of ...
Economics & Business
Oct 20, 2025
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Recent advances in long-read sequencing techniques have produced large amounts of high-quality rRNA marker gene data about eukaryotic organisms, but many of these taxa have remained unknown at the highest taxonomic levels: ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Oct 20, 2025
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West Nile Virus was once a nominal concern for Utahns but since August 2003, when it was first detected in the Beehive State, infections in Utah residents have steadily risen.
Ecology
Oct 20, 2025
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Scientists have discovered how one of the world's most destructive plant diseases manages to slip past crops' defenses—a breakthrough that could help farmers grow stronger, more resilient plants.
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 20, 2025
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The human brain, once thought to lose much of its flexibility after childhood, continues remodeling itself throughout life—recovering from injuries, learning new skills, and adapting to challenges—a remarkable capacity for ...
Plants & Animals
Oct 20, 2025
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